Random musings on all things cinematical, and otherwise, by Joe Leydon.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Boll goes Postal, Part II

My Variety colleague Dennis Harvey reports that Uwe Boll's latest may -- gasp! -- actually be worth seeing. Postal, Harvey writes, is an "energetic if scattershot farce" that "aims to be the It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World of bad-taste satires on an out-of-control post-9/11 world. Like that non-classic, its sheer exertion often impresses more than the number of actual laughs scored. Still, this anything-goes exercise isn't dull... " Based loosely -- apparently, very loosely -- on a series of videogames, Postal"is equal-opportunity cartoonish in embracing and sending up stereotypes and sacred cows, though most mainstream viewers -- not the target demo here -- will be appalled by certain ideas being used for comedy. They range from an opening 9/11 hijacker cockpit sequence to a fade with secret allies George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden skipping hand-in-hand into the nuclear explosion-riddled sunset."